Facebook Login using Spring Social & Spring Boot

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You can download sample application created by Spring developer – gs-accessing-facebook

Here is the code sample which they added to implement Facebook Login

pom.xml – need to add below dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.social</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-social-facebook</artifactId>
</dependency>

application.properties

spring.social.facebook.appId=233668646673605
spring.social.facebook.appSecret=33b17e044ee6a4fa383f46ec6e28ea1d

HelloController.java

package hello;

import org.springframework.social.connect.ConnectionRepository;
import org.springframework.social.facebook.api.Facebook;
import org.springframework.social.facebook.api.PagedList;
import org.springframework.social.facebook.api.Post;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/")
public class HelloController {

    private Facebook facebook;
    private ConnectionRepository connectionRepository;

    public HelloController(Facebook facebook, ConnectionRepository connectionRepository) {
        this.facebook = facebook;
        this.connectionRepository = connectionRepository;
    }

    @GetMapping
    public String helloFacebook(Model model) {
        if (connectionRepository.findPrimaryConnection(Facebook.class) == null) {
            return "redirect:/connect/facebook";
        }
        model.addAttribute("facebookProfile", facebook.userOperations().getUserProfile());
        PagedList<Post> feed = facebook.feedOperations().getFeed();
        model.addAttribute("feed", feed);
        return "hello";
    }
}

hello.html

<html>
	<head>
		<title>Hello Facebook</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<h3>Hello, <span th:text="${facebookProfile.name}">Some User</span>!</h3>
		
		<h4>Here is your feed:</h4>
		
		

			from wrote:
			
message text

			
			

		

	</body>
</html>

To see live demo watch below video –

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